My characters are quite as real to me as so-called real people; which is one reason why I'm not subject to what is known as loneliness. I have plenty of company.
William S. BurroughsTags: writing write loneliness characters writer company
Two questions form the foundation of all novels: "What if?" and "What next?" (A third question, "What now?", is one the author asks himself every 10 minutes or so; but it's more a cry than a question.) Every novel begins with the speculative question, What if "X" happened? That's how you start.
Tom ClancyTags: questions writing write novels novel author cry what-if start what-now speculative
At the heart of the impulse to tell stories is a mystery so profound.
Dennis CovingtonTags: writing write stories heart impulse
Good writing is remembering detail. Most people want to forget. Don't forget things that were painful or embarrassing or silly. Turn them into a story that tells the truth.
Paula DanzigerTags: truth pain writing write story forget writer detail silly painful tell embarrassing
You should really stay true to your own style. When I first started writing, everybody said to me, 'Your style just isn't right because you don't use the really flowery language that romances have.' My romances - compared to what's out there - are very strange, very odd, very different. And I think that's one of the reasons they're selling.
Jude DeverauxTags: style writing write different language strange writer author romances odd flowery
On plenty of days the writer can write three or four pages, and on plenty of other days he concludes he must throw them away.
Annie DillardTags: writing write writer pages
Don't quit. It's very easy to quit during the first 10 years. Nobody cares whether you write or not, and it's very hard to write when nobody cares one way or the other. You can't get fired if you don't write, and most of the time you don't get rewarded if you do. But don't quit.
Andre DubusTags: writing write perseverance writer quit
Criticism can never instruct or benefit you. Its chief effect is that of a telegram with dubious news. Praise leaves no glow behind, for it is a writer's habit to remember nothing good of himself. I have usually forgotten those who have admired my work, and seldom anyone who disliked it. Obviously, this is because praise is never enough and censure always too much.
Ben HechtTags: writing write criticism praise writer forgotten dislike habit censure like benefit instruct
What a writer has to do is write what hasn't been written before or beat dead men at what they have done.
Ernest HemingwayYou need that pride in yourself, as well as a sense, when you are sitting on Page 297 of a book, that the book is going to be read, that somebody is going to care. You can't ever be sure about that, but you need the sense that it's important, that it's not typing; it's writing.
Roger KahnTags: writing write read book pride important somebody page-297 typing
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